Walafrid Strabo Conservation Society

07/22/2026

Our president did a wide-ranging interview on the Furiously Curious Company podcast last month. Here are some of his remarks on how today's environmental movement is a counterfeit, in the medieval Christian sense.

07/16/2026

The forests are too quiet. Your windshield is too clean.

In just one human lifetime, wildlife around the world has been disappearing at an alarming rate. Over the past 50 years, the average size of monitored wildlife populations has declined by a staggering 73%.

This figure comes from one of the most extensive assessments of global wildlife, tracking thousands of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. It does not mean that 73% of all animals have vanished. Instead, it means the average monitored population has shrunk by nearly three quarters since 1970. Put simply, a population of 100 animals would now average just 27.

Some ecosystems have suffered even more. Freshwater wildlife in rivers, lakes, and wetlands has experienced the steepest decline, with monitored populations falling by around 85%. Dams, pollution, habitat drainage, and growing human pressure are pushing these fragile ecosystems to their limits.

The biggest driver of wildlife decline is habitat loss as forests, grasslands, and wetlands are converted for agriculture and urban development. Overhunting, overfishing, pollution, invasive species, disease, and climate change are adding even more pressure.

Scientists warn that continued declines could push vital ecosystems toward dangerous tipping points. These natural systems help clean our water, pollinate crops, regulate the climate, and support human life. Losing wildlife is not simply about losing incredible species; it threatens the systems we depend on every day.

There is still hope. Protected areas, habitat restoration, and successful species recovery programs have shown that nature can recover when meaningful action is taken.

The question is: what will it take for humanity to finally recognize this as the global emergency it has become?

Source: WWF and Zoological Society of London, Living Planet Report

07/07/2026

Whatever you think about the global climate debate, we can build more temperate, resilient local climate regimes through ecosystem restoration and preservation.

🌳 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝟐𝟑°𝐂 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞.

A satellite photograph of my own region, taken on 24 June 2026.

Copernicus Sentinel-3 measured the land surface during the peak of the heat. The result is almost hard to believe.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲
Sealed surfaces in central Brussels hit around 47°C. Asphalt, concrete and rooftops soak up the sun and radiate it straight back, turning the city into a giant storage heater that stays warm long after dark.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭
Under the canopy of the Sonian Forest, just a few kilometres away, the surface stayed around 24.5°C. Same sun. Same day. Same heatwave. A difference of nearly 23 degrees, created by nothing but trees.

Trees don't just block sunlight. They breathe out water and cool the air around them, like a living air conditioner that runs on nothing and asks for nothing.

We keep building cities that trap heat, then pay to fight the heat we trapped. Meanwhile the best cooling technology on earth grows from the ground, cleans our air and shelters life while it works. 🌳

This is why every tree in a city matters. And why we can't afford to keep cutting them for one more parking lot.

Let's plant more trees. And protect the ones we still have.

👉🏼 More on designing places that cool, feed and heal us, in my book: https://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/red-eerst-jezelf-en-dan-pas-de-planeet-9789020970616

(Data: Copernicus Sentinel-3, 24 June 2026)
Thanks Ben Brumagne for sharing!

07/02/2026

Even if it did not cause cancer in humans, the way glyphosate ravages ecosystems is killing the planet.

The picture on the left was my son after more than a gallon of glyphosate was tipped over his neck and shoulders during a work accident. This is why I won't stay quiet. My healthy, 6 ft 5, 18 year old son was taken down to 125 pounds after glyphosate seeped into his pores.

That picture? He'd turned a corner then. We all felt like he just might make it. We were celebrating. He could stand. He could get out of his hospital bed. He didn't want a picture taken at his worst - with no hair from rounds and rounds of chemo, looking more shrunken, bigger tumors. A few months before this left picture, he was at death's door, stage 4 lymphoma and the doctors didn't give us much hope he would live.

I'm one of the fortunate mothers. My son battled like a warrior. He survived and the right picture is him now. But there was a brutal seven year battle with all the alternative methods, all the chemo... so much that he became chemo resistant. Then when nothing else would stop the tumors from growing back, a stem cell transplant that wiped out his whole immune system in the hope it would restart. Many mothers.... many families are not so fortunate. They lost their loved one.

Last week the Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 that glyphosate didn't need a cancer warning. Monsanto won. Bayer won. Two of the largest companies in the world won against thousands of families. My son, our entire family and thousands of others families who have had glyphosate impact their lives felt this blow in our guts.

Eleven years ago the WHO announced it "probably causes cancer." We want the "probably" word gone. We want this monster named for who it is and what it does.

We lost the fight last week. But the battle will keep going. Mothers like me won't stop. Because we know.

-Serene

07/02/2026

Stuart will be presenting on both witch persecutions and Walafrid Strabo's early medieval theory of habitat loss and agriculture skepticism at the event.

06/23/2026

Canada's environmental movement faces the challenge of a massive rollback of legislation limiting endocrine disruptors and carcinogens in our environment. But within it there is opportunity. Many conservative Canadians support RFK's efforts to do the opposite south of the border.

What if mainstream environmental groups dropped their "cooties" progressive politics and built a broad coalition with raw milk conservatives, Christian conservationists and RFK fans in Canada to oppose Carney's rollback from both sides of our cultural partition?

Public interest organizations denounce amendments to Canada’s Pest Control Products Act included in the government’s omnibus financial bill, as Bill C-30 moves to the final vote in the House of Commons.

06/17/2026

We are a non-partisan organization but Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May is absolutely correct on this issue.

06/15/2026

Stuart Parker will be bringing fraternal greetings to our friends in Deep Green Resistance. It's still not too late to register for this important event, where we will be making our third public presentation, this one on the ecological thought of Walafrid Strabo.

06/10/2026

Understanding the sufficiency of what the Lord has provided is core to our conservationism.

Without wild nature, God's bounty, true freedom is impossible.

05/23/2026

Our second Vancouver Island meetup at Don Mee's in Victoria.